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Author:
Walsh, Lynda, 1971-
Title:
Scientists as prophets : a rhetorical genealogy / Lynda Walsh.
Publisher:
Oxford University Press,
Copyright Date:
2013
Description:
pages cm
Subject:
Science--Forecasting.--Forecasting.
Scientists--Moral and ethical aspects.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages ) and index.
Contents:
Prelude: scientists as prophets and the rhetoric of prophecy -- The Delphic oracle and ancient prophetic ethos -- The natural magician and the prophet: Francis Bacon's ethical alchemy -- Confirming signs: the prophetic ethos of the early Royal Society -- Interlude: competing ethical models and a catch-22 -- J. Robert Oppenheimer: cultic prophet -- Rachel Carson, kairotic prophet -- Media, metaphor, and the "oracles of science" -- Climate change and the technologies of prophecy -- Postlude: problems and solutions.
ISBN:
9780199857111
0199857113
LCCN:
2012038843
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)
PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)

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